[MCOH-EH] New employee orientation: What's your role in initiating a discussion of workplace safety?

[Galaid Edward I]

We are revamping our presentation  in the short time we are allotted in new employee orientation to discuss safety, and engendering a culture of safety of health in the workplace.
Could you just take a sec to very briefly answer some basic questions...


  1.  How much time do you get?
  2.  How do you structure it and set the tone....for example...do you present individuals' stories?  Do you focus on the nuts-and-bolts of how to report and injury, seek care, etc?  Do you discuss the relationship between employee safety and patient safety?  Do you have different modules for employees who are involved in direct patient care, who work in healthcare facilities but not in direct patient care, and those who work in generic administrative and business functions not specifically related to healthcare.

In the interest of your valuable time, feel free to respond in sentence fragments...so I can get a flavor of what people are doing...it'll help us get started.

Thanks

Ed Galaid


Edward I. Galaid, MD, MPH, FACOEM
ABIM, ABPM (OM)
Medical Director, Roper St. Francis Physician Partners Occupational Medicine
Charleston, SC
Member, ACOEM Task Group,  Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of Law Enforcement Officers
Member, NFPA 1582 Task Group
(O) 843-402-5053




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